Deuteronomy 19:6

Modern King James Version

so that the avenger of the blood may not pursue the slayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him, and he had no sentence worthy of death, for he did not hate him in time past.

Cross References

Numbers 35:12

And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

2 Samuel 14:7

And behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid. And they said, Deliver him who struck his brother so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed. And we will destroy the heir also. And so they shall put out my coal which is left, and shall leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

Joshua 20:5

And if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he has struck his neighbor without knowing, and did not hate him in past time.

Deuteronomy 21:22

And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and if he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,

Deuteronomy 19:5

even he who goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand brings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the wood and lights on his neighbor so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities and live,

Deuteronomy 19:7

Therefore I command you saying, You shall separate three cities for you.